Futuri Mobile apps feature a live news feature, which integrates RSS feeds from your station website or other news sources.
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Creating News Categories
If your station website has an RSS feed for each vertical (e.g., Local, National, Entertainment, Business, etc.), you can add each one as a Live News Category in the Futuri Control Room RSS Feeds section.
Click New Category at the bottom, and enter a Feed Name that will appear as the news category label in the app, along with the RSS feed URL.
Formatting Your RSS Feed
Generally speaking, your RSS feed should contain the following tags to be formatted properly within the app:
- <title>
- <link>
- <description>
- <media:content> (to be displayed with the story)
Images will be displayed with each story in the list, scaled/cropped to 212x170px.
If your article contains hyperlinks, they will open in a web view browser within the app.
NOTE: By default, Futuri apps will prevent the display of irrelevant content within news articles and will not show embedded multimedia content (images, videos, charts, etc.). If you would like to enable the display of multimedia content, please contact your Futuri Implementation Specialist or vipsupport@futurimedia.com to see if this feature is supported with your news provider's format.
Breaking News Alerts
Users can subscribe to Breaking News Alerts, which come in the form of push notifications.
You can create and send push notifications directly from the Futuri Control Room in the Audience Alerts section. For more information, see Audience Alerts.